Jihad Mughniyah

Jihad Mughniyah (1992-18 January 2015) was a commander of Hezbollah and the son of late leader Imad Mugniyah. He was killed in 2015 during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Jihad Mughniyah was the son of Hezbollah commander Imad Mugniyah, a Lebanese Islamist who fought against Israel and the United States in the Middle East in a series of terrorist attacks. He was of Shi'ite Muslim Lebanese descent. In 2008, his father was killed in a car bombing in Damascus, Syria at a party. Jihad Mughniyah proclaimed his allegiance to new Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah a week after the assassination of his father, blaming Israel for the killing. Mughniyah became a senior commander of Hezbollah despite his young age, and the fact that he pledged allegiance to the main leader of the group strengthened the resolve of the organization.

In 2015, days after Nasrallah declared that Israel's air strike aggression in Syria meant that the Syrian Arab Republic and its allies had the right to respond, an Israeli helicopter blew up Mughniyah and five other Hezbollah commanders including Mohamad Issa in Quneitra Province. They were driving in a convoy in Quneitra Province alongside Iranian Revolutionary Guard Council (IRGC) troops near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and on 18 January 2015 the convoy was destroyed by the Israeli helicopter. Now that father and son were dead, Hezbollah sought heavy retaliation against the Israelis.